Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America.

the popular works of Sally Pratt McLean.

Cape Cod Folks. A Novel. Twenty-third edition. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. Paper, 50 cents.

Towhead: the story of A Girl. Fifth Thousand. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. Paper, 50 cents.

Since the production of Miss McLean's first effort “Cape Cod Folks,” she has steadily advanced in intellectual development; the same genius is at work in a larger and more artistic manner, until she has at length produced what must be truly considered as her masterpiece, and which we have the pleasure to announce for immediate publication.

some other Folks. A Book in Four Stories. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. Paper, 50 cents,

These books are so well known that further comment seems superfluous. Suffice it to say that the entire press of the country has unanimously spoken of them in terms of high praise, dwelling not only on their delicious humor, their literary workmanship, their genuine pathos, and their real power and eloquence, but what has been described as their deep, true humanness, and the inimitable manner in which the mirror is held up to nature that all may see reflected therein some familiar trait, some description or character which is at once recognized.

Lastchance junction: human nature in the far West. A Novel. By Sally Pratt McLean. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.

“Trse, incisive descriptions of men and scenery, drawn with so vivid a pen that one can see the characters and their setting, delicious bits of humor, passages full of infinite pathos, make this book absolutely hold the reader from the title to the last word, and as, when finished, one sighs for the pity of it, the feeling rises that such a work has not been written in vain, and will have its place among those which tend to elevate our race.”

Miss Frances Merley. A Novel. By John Elliot Curran. 420 pages. Square 16mo. Paper covers, 50 cents. Cloth, $1.00.

The first important work of an author familiar to American readers by his remarkable sketches to Scribner's and other magazines.

Autobiography of A New England farm House: A Romance of the Cape Cod Lands. By N. H. Chamberlain. 380 pages. Square 16mo. Paper covers, 50 cents. Cloth, $1.00.

A novel of singular power and beauty, great originality and rugged force. Born and bred on Cape Cod, the author, at the winter firesides of country people, very conservative of ancient English customs now gone, heard curious talk of kings, Puritan ministers, the war and precedent struggle of our Revolution, and touched a race of men and women now passed away. He also heard, chiefly from ancient women, the traditions of ghosts, witches and Indians, as they are preserved, and to a degree believed, by honest Christian folk, in the very teeth of modern progress.